Aside from the XMA-style kata, the less flashy stuff on youtube is all long low karate stances and loud kiai sword haymakers. You can tell its derived from karate + sword, but that's a recipe for poor swordsmanship.

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Aside from the XMA-style kata, the less flashy stuff on youtube is all long low karate stances and loud kiai sword haymakers. You can tell its derived from karate + sword, but that's a recipe for poor swordsmanship.

Shorin Ryu is not characterized by low long stances, unlike the majority of Okinawan styles. Note the difference in the excellent videos previously linked of kenjutsu vs the XMA kata garbage.

Okinawan arts were not traditionally sword arts cause you know, Japanese. Admittedly, I am no expert on the sword arts or Shorin Ryu. It'd be good to have one of the site's practitioners weigh in.